Uranus
Uranus was the embodiment of the sky. Born at the dawn of creation, he stretched vast and limitless, a shimmering dome of stars and swirling clouds. His power was immense, for he held the heavens aloft, a constant presence above the young earth.
Residence: Sky
Symbols: Zodiac wheel
Parents: Gaia
Consort: Gaia
Offspring: The Titans, the Cyclops, the Meliae, the Furies, the Giants, the Hecatoncheires and Aphrodite
Roman equivalent: Caelus
A primal rage shook Gaia, the earth goddess. Uranus, the vast sky who had once been her consort, had imprisoned their eldest sons, the monstrous Cyclops and Hecatoncheires, within her very womb. The pain was immense, a violation that echoed through the earth itself. Fueled by this suffering, Gaia hatched a rebellion. Her Titan children, powerful beings born from the union of sky and earth, heeded her call. Four of them, titans of immense strength, positioned themselves at the corners of the world, ready to seize Uranus as he descended to embrace Gaia. The fifth, Cronus, the youngest and most cunning, took a different approach. Armed with an adamantine sickle forged by Gaia, he ambushed his father during their sacred union, viciously severing his connection to the earth with a single, brutal strike.
Even as his blood rained down upon the earth, Uranus, the dethroned sky god, roared a final prophecy. He cursed his treacherous sons, the Titans, foretelling their own downfall at the hands of their children. This chilling pronouncement cast a long shadow over the newly established order. It was a stark reminder that power, even divinely ordained power, was never permanent. The seeds of rebellion, sown by Cronus’ act, were now embedded in the very fabric of the cosmos, a dark prophecy that would eventually come true when Zeus, Cronus’ son, rose to power and cast the Titans into the abyss of Tartarus.
